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The New and Improved Moderate Agudah?
Image from Facebook 563 likes. And 229 shares. That’s how many likes and shares Mrs. Suri Weinstock got on her Facebook post (re-posted on Cross Currents). I don’t know what the record is for shares...
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Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue
Sholom Rubashkin (Cutting Edge News)I was critical. Outraged even! Sholom Rubashkin seemed to lend credence to the false stereotype of a money hungry Jewish fraudster, I thought. Here was a bearded,...
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Are School Vouchers on the Horizon?
VP-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump & Betsy DeVos (Forward)As I said during the campaign, I agreed more with Trump’s stated positions on many issues than I did with Clinton’s - but I...
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It’s Mad Dog!
Retired Marine General James 'Mad Dog' MattisIf one is pro Israel, one might actually be ‘mad’ at the President-elect for choosing retired Marine General James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense....
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Gadol Cards - a Bad Idea
R' Moshe Feinstein's Gadol card (Lehrhaus)One might think the idea of collecting baseball cards is a frivolous undertaking. Even for young people. Are there not getter ways of spending one’s time and...
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A Chasidic Rebbe’s Approach to the Internet
R' Boruch Meir Yaakov Shochet - the Karlin-Stoliner RebbeThe great ‘Internet Asifa’ held back in May of 2012 and attended by tens of thousands of mostly right wing Orthodox Jews still reverberates in...
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It’s What He Didn’t Say
Who will teach them how to function in the 21st century?Last week I was happy to report that Agudah seemed to turn a corner. This was indicated by a very positive yet unexpected experience that a...
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Yosef Mizrachi Must be Stopped
Yosef MizrachiAn unrepentant fool. That was my description or ‘Rabbi’ Yosef Mizrachi about a year ago when he first let the world know just how much of a fool he is. Unfortunately not everyone thinks...
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Is this what 2040 will look like?
Guest Contribution by Paul Shaviv Paul ShavivI am once again pleased to host the words of renowned Jewish educator, Paul Shaviv. His comments are always thoughtful, informative, and incisive. This post...
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The ‘Guise of Saving Lives’?!
Seminary women (Arutz Sheva)It’s a stupidity like this that makes me so strongly reject the Hashkafos from which it is sourced. From Arutz Sheva: The haredi educational journal, Kol Hachinuch (Voice of...
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We Owe it to Our Children
He’s right. Attorney, Elliot Pasik is one of the movers and shakers when it comes to combating child sexual abuse. In a Times of Israel article he penned, he reminds us about one of his major...
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A Bad Idea – The Proposed Kotel Law
Protesters arguing with Charedim (Ha'aretz)When I heard Conservative Rabbi Andrew Sacks claiming that egalitarian sevices are Halachicly sound, it re-enforced my resolve to oppose them. It has long ago...
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Will Chareidim Advocate for the Security of Israel?
Guest contribution by Heshey ZelcerIf you are a religious Jew what is your reaction upon seeing the flag of Israel? Pride? Shame? Disgust? I have a tremendous sense of pride when I see this flag. I...
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Modesty, Culture, and Dress Codes
Mini-skirted protesters that were blocked from the Keneset (Forward)Are modesty standards relative to the culture? Well, yes and no. Read on. Yes, modesty is an issue in Judaism. Unfortunately when the...
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Rabbi Sherman Must Go!
Rabbi Avraham Sherman (YWN)Why do I care what Rabbi Avarham Sherman says? Personally I don’t. I don’t really have much respect for people that cause the kind of damage he does. But the damage is real....
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Will Trump be Good or Bad for Israel?
David Friedman, Donald Trump, and his daughter, Ivanka (Ha'artez)During the campaign I thought that candidate Trump was an embarrassment to the nation that should in no way become the leader of the...
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The Invisible Kipa
Image from Ha'aretzEvery once in a while there is some good news to report. This was the sentiment of Rabbi Moshe Grylak in his Mishpacha editorial (of the same title) this week. I agree. He noted a...
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A Tragedy Turns into a Kiddush Hashem
The 2 year old victimThe Chesed of the Orthodox Jewish world was once again evident recently in the form of responding to tragedy in Lakewood. Sadly a 2 year old boy was tragically killed by his aunt...
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Will All of American Jewry Eventually be Orthodox?
Lubavitchers that do outreach work - at a 2013 annual meetingOne may be tempted to feel a sense of triumphalism because of the thoughts expressed yesterday in a Forward article by Hebrew Union College...
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A Pig in a Shtreimal?
Machon Tal founder Adina Bar Shalom and her father, R' Ovadia Yosef, ZTLThe Charedi world in Israel is in turmoil right now. Their population is increasing as their per capita income is decreasing....
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